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		josephg 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Internet in a Box Its also kind of bad form to scrape a huge website when there's a downloadable dump available. Save yourself, and more importantly wikimedia, a whole lot of bandwidth & CPU cycles.

blacksmith_tb 10 months ago [–]

And torrenting the dumps helps distribute them to others as well.

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